-My next guest is
an Oscar-nominated actress
who you can see in the new film
"Stillwater," which is in theaters right now.
Please welcome Abigail Breslin!
[ Cheering and applause ] -♪ Abigail Breslin ♪
♪ She's one of a kind ♪
♪ She's come a long way ♪
♪ From "Little Miss Sunshine" ♪
♪ With a zombie ♪
♪ She's been out to play ♪
♪ She's got to get back ♪
♪ To that "Stillwater" place ♪
-Thank you. -♪ Yeah ♪
-Thank you so much. -Ah, they love you. Come on!
Thank you. I had to sit quickly
because I was afraid I was going to fall.
-Yeah. You look gorgeous. Thank you so much -Oh, thank you.
for being here in-studio. I appreciate this.
-Of course. Thank you for having me.
-We've known each other for a long time.
-Quite a while. -Yeah.
-Since I was like 12, 13?
-Yeah, exactly right. -Yeah.
-"Little Miss Sunshine," I think,
was when we kind of first met.
Or one after that, maybe.
Have you ever watched your movies back?
Like do you go like, "Oh, yeah"?
-I mean, I love my own work, but, you know --
[ Laughter ] No, I know you probably don't go
out of your way to watch it, but,
have you seen it on TV and go,
"Oh, yeah, I kind of remember that"?
-Yeah. I mean, I hadn't seen "Little Miss Sunshine"
until like --
it came out when I was 10 --
except for about a few months ago,
my boyfriend -- who is amazing.
We've been together for four and a half years, but,
he had no idea who I was when we met
and I told him that I was, you know, moving to L.A.
and he was like, "Oh, for what reason?"
I was like, "Well, I'm an actor,"
and he said, "[ Scoff ] Good luck.
[ Laughter ] It's really hard."
You're like, "Well, I kind of --"
-It's like, "I'm okay," but --
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah, "I've done fairly well. Yeah, alright, yeah."
-But he had never seen "Little Miss Sunshine."
I was like, "[ Scoff ] It's the prime of my career,
[ Laughter ] so we should watch it."
And we saw it and... -Wow.
-...I just kind of was like -- [ Exhaling forcefully ]
I did not understand
any of the jokes back when I was a child,
[ Laughter ] so, it went right over my head
and then, I watched it and I was like,
"Oh, I get it now." [ Laughter ]
-"Oh, I get what that movie --" Yeah, you were fantastic.
-Thank you. -I was interested to see like
if you watched that as an adult, what do you remember?
You're probably like, "I kind of remember..."
-Well, I remember -- I mean, I loved working with everybody,
but I obviously was like a little too young
to watch "The Office"
or, you know, "United States of Tara"
or any of those shows... -Oh, yeah, Toni Collette.
-...so I was like, "I love 'Hannah Montana.'
What about you?" You know?
[ Laughter ] That was like my vibe.
-You have a great career and very interesting.
I like that you also put music out, too.
-Yeah. -You put it under the name
Sophomore. -Mm-hmm.
-Congrats on that, because you have great reviews on the music.
-Thank you. -And we were talking backstage
about things, you were saying, "Yeah,"
and we were talking about songs and realizing that
you mess up the lyrics to some songs.
We were talking about the "Friends" theme
and how you messed up one of the lyrics in there and it's --
♪ I'll be there for you ♪
When you're...
-Well, I thought it was --
♪ When your face starts to fall ♪
[ Laughter ]
-"When your face starts to fall."
-Well, I thought like when you're getting older
or something like,
[ Laughter ] you know, your face starts --
Or like when you're sad, like, "Oh, why the long face?"
You know? -Yeah, it actually could work.
-Hey, guys, I'm so down to do a remix.
I don't mind. Yeah.
[ Laughter ] -[ Clap ]
-But I know you're also a big "Friends" fan.
-[ Scoff ] Forever.
-You did, yeah, and you got to meet David Schwimmer
recently. -Yes.
-Talk to me. -At the premiere of "Stillwater"
in New York,
I had to introduce my brother to Matt Damon,
who's in the film. He's awesome.
You know, he's great. -He's Matt Damon, yeah.
-I know. He's amazing, for sure.
But like I've worked with him now, so, like, you know.
It's chill. And I was like -- [ Laughter ]
I was just, you know, watching him talk to my brother
and I see, out of the corner of my eye,
[ Snaps fingers ] Ross Geller, David Schwimmer,
and I'm like,
"Matt, move!"
[ Laughter ] And I literally like
shoved him full force out of the way,
leapt over a couch -- not my finest moment --
ran over to him and I was like, "Pivot!"
[ Laughter ]
-"Pivot," you were yelling?
-"Pivot!" -"Pivot," of course, yeah.
-He's like, "Hello."
[ Laughter ]
-You fangirled out. You just went crazy.
-Yeah, I cried a little bit. I got to take a selfie with him.
I wanted to, but then I realized that my phone was dead.
Anh! For some reason,
I don't know why, I never charged my phone
-It just happened. -for moments like this.
And so I was like, to my friend, who's here, I was like, "Noel!
Phone! Now!"
[ Laughter ] And she brings over and I'm like,
"So sorry. Thank you so much."
I was like, "I want a selfie. No, I want it to be a selfie."
So I took a selfie with him. It's so blurry.
It's like -- Oh.
-I disagree. I think this is the greatest photo.
[ Laughter ] There he is. You and --
[ Laughing ] [ Cheering and applause ]
Yeah. He's a great guy. Wasn't he nice?
-Oh, he was super nice. I think scared, but, yeah.
[ Laughter ] -Frightened, but still.
You're great in "Stillwater." -Thank you.
-As is Matt as well.
Can you set this film up?
It's kind of a tricky premise.
-Yeah. So it's basically about, um,
a guy who goes to Marseille from Oklahoma.
He's an oil rig worker
and he's going out there to visit his daughter,
who's been imprisoned in France for a murder she, you know,
maintains her innocence on.
And, yeah... -That's good.
-...along the way, a lot of things happen.
-I want to show a clip.
Here's Abigail Breslin in "Stillwater."
Take a look.
-So is this woman your girlfriend?
-It's not like that.
I just live with them.
Like roommates.
-What does she do?
-She's sort of an actress.
-"Sort of an actress"?
She a stripper?
-No.
She just don't do TV acting or anything.
She does theater.
-Theater. [ Laughs ]
Have you seen her act?
-What am I going to do in a [bleep] theater?
-[ Laughs ]
[ Cheering and applause ]
-Abigail Breslin!
"Stillwater" is in theaters now.